Bread-Crumb Dumplings

Preparation info
  • About

    12

    large dumplings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
New York Times Menu Cookbook

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1966

  • About

Ingredients

  • 1 loaf of good-quality sliced white bread
  • ¼ cup water
  • 6 to 8 eggs

Method

  1. Trim the crusts from the bread. Use the white part to make bread crumbs. To make the crumbs, tear up and blend a few slices at a time in an electric blender. Or grate them on a hand grater or rub them through a sieve.

  2. Sprinkle enough of the water over the crumbs, tossing with a two-pronged fork, barely to moisten. Add the eggs, tossing lightly with th